Closing the South Saskatchewan River Basin to New Water Licences: Effects on Municipal Water Supplies
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Abstract
Abstract The Alberta provincial government approved the Water Management Plan for the South Saskatchewan River Basin (SSRB) in August 2006. As a result of this plan, the Province stopped accepting applications for new allocations of water in the Oldman, Bow, and South Saskatchewan sub-basins in southern Alberta. This licence closure has had a significant effect on water supply strategies available to municipal water users, as many communities currently hold water licences that are not adequate for their projected growth. To meet additional water demands, these communities must reduce their water use, arrange water licence transfers, or purchase water from another licence holder. This paper describes how closing the SSRB to new water allocations has affected water supply planning for municipalities in the Calgary region in southern Alberta. It also discusses water supply and licence constraints and potential mitigation strategies, and examines the effects of the basin closure on water supply and land-use planning, and utility governance. En août 2006, le gouvernement albertain a approuvé un plan de gestion de l'eau pour le bassin versant de la rivière Saskatchewan Sud. Il a par la suite dû cesser d'accepter les nouvelles demandes de permis d'utilisation d'eau pour les sous-bassins versants des rivières Bow, Oldman, et Saskatchewan Sud dans le sud de la province. La cessation de l'attribution des permis a eu un impact considérable sur les communautés environnantes, en diminuant les stratégies d'approvisionnement en eau pour les consommateurs, surtout pour les communautés qui n'ont pas de permis adéquats pour répondre à la demande d'eau des populations futures. Pour ces communautés, les besoins grandissants en eau devront être satisfaits par la réduction de l'utilisation, le transfert de permis déjà existants, ou l'achat d'eau provenant d'une municipalité avec un permis différent. Cet article décrit comment la cessation de l'attribution des permis d'utilisation d'eau dans le bassin versant de la rivière Saskatchewan Sud a affecté la planification de l'approvisionnement dans les régions de Calgary et du sud de l'Alberta. Les contraintes reliées à l'approvisionnement et à l'obtention de permis d'utilisation d'eau, ainsi que certaines stratégies pour en contrer les effets, sont discutées. Finalement, les conséquences de cette cessation sur la planification de l'utilisation des terres et la gestion des infrastructures sont présentées.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".